The use of neuromodulation to develop new training methods for sporting skills

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K12652
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sports science
• Research Institution: Uekusa Gakuen University
• Principal Investigator: ENDOH Takashi 植草学園大学, 発達教育学部, 准教授 (80510594)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 運動学習 / 経頭蓋直流電流刺激 / 皮質運動野 / 運動制御 / スポーツパフォーマンス / トレーニング / ニューロモデュレーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Neuromodulation has been applied as the effective rehabilitation of motor deficits. Here, we investigate the effect of neuromodulation upon development of sporting-skills training. Novice table-tennis players repeatedly practiced their forehand, aiming at a target on the table, after stimulation of the hand-and-arm motor area of the cortex via transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). Accuracy improved significantly after tDCS. Therefore, we suggest that neuromodulation facilitates sporting-skills training.

Free Research Field

運動生理学